Paul Ryan, Habitual Liar?
The GOP nominee now for Al Gore’s position in the 1990s is making the Nobel Peace Prize winner look like George Washington and the cherry tree. In matters large and small, Paul Ryan is setting Olympic records for public lies.
In 1999, Gore took heat for claiming he “invented” the Internet. What he actually said was “in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.” This year he was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame with the citation: “Gore recognized the importance of building the information infrastructure and making it available to everyone.”
This week Ryan’s convention speech set off truth meters clanging everywhere to keep up with lies, distortions and omissions, numbers mounting into double figures.
That his indifference to truth is a matter of disposition rather than expedience is suggested by an off-the-cuff claim following the convention speech. Asked about marathons, the VP runner casually notes, “I had a two-fifty something.” When Runner’s World checks, the number is actually 4.01.
Lie or mistake, Ryan’s impulse to bend the truth seems instinctive, a reaction that kicks in even when no political gain is involved. In less than a week, he has provided more evidence of lying than Joe Biden’s reputation for gaffes rests on in 40 years.
The irony here is that the GOP’s vaunted “truth teller” about the nation’s economic woes is himself a prime example of everything he denounces about government. Since he graduated from college, Paul Davis Ryan has been sucking at the taxpayers’ teat, first as a legislative aide in Congress and then as an elected member—-not one minute out in the real word, job-creating.
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kinda… more like your typical ego driven Rand type that never misses a chance to stroke his vanity….even it it means telling a little lie.
he probably doesnt even have a six pack stomach
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie#Classification
This is what concerns me the most, people who are responsible for such far reaching decisions not having much grasp of real world life. They’ve spent thier lives practicing to be politicians and little else. Talk about the ultimate image vs. substance. Where is their real world experience???
Matthew Dowd has criticized Ryan’s for its many falsehoods, saying, “at some point, the truth should matter.”
But who would believe the chief political strategist for former President Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign.
“Bush Chief Political Strategist: Paul Ryan’s Speech Was Full Of Lies” @
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/09/02/787991/bush-chief-political-strategist-paul-ryans-speech-was-full-of-lies/?mobile=nc
Ryan’s misstatement about his marathon time, may have been the result of disposition, just like fishermen who talk about the one that got away. However, specific lies about Obama’s policies, while often avoiding the fact that his policies are much the same, are made primarily for expedience.
Ryan is much too young and intelligent(although to what degree, is debatable) not to realize that most of his lies are deliberate. However, such a mentality is par-for-the-course in his Republican universe. The disturbing thing is that for the past few years, Republicans have not even cared if what they say is true, or not! The strategy seems to be one of willful misrepresentation of their policies and positions–knowing that most people who watch the convention, will not even bother to check them out at sites like FactCheck.org or Politico–they will just accept them as the truth and vote accordingly.
If Republicans would engage in genuine debates about the virtues in their political philosophy, instead of flagrantly denying reality, then we might get somewhere that includes some degree of legitimacy and honesty. However, it has been apparent during the last decade, that all they now want is a way to secure and implement political power–truth be damned, and, to the victor go the spoils. I really don’t understand why any person with even a modicum of conscience would not be upset by this strategy? I am hoping for the day when a large majority of Americans see through it, and completely kick the bums out!